GPS Weapons
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I am wondering why the GPS weapons page does not include the stand-off capability afforded to MAN or manual bombing mode. Since the GPS weapon have a range they could be released before the aircraft was required to fly over the target in the CCRP mode.
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I am wondering why the GPS weapons page does not include the stand-off capability afforded to MAN or manual bombing mode. Since the GPS weapon have a range they could be released before the aircraft was required to fly over the target in the CCRP mode.
You dont have CCRP for GPS bombs. Time to read the BMS dash-34, 3.4 Inertially Aided Munitions.
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I am wondering why the GPS weapons page does not include the stand-off capability afforded to MAN or manual bombing mode. Since the GPS weapon have a range they could be released before the aircraft was required to fly over the target in the CCRP mode.
I’m not sure I understand your question. Several GPS targeted weapons can be launched, lofted or level-released at stand-off ranges. For instance, basic GBU-38 JDAMs can be tossed from ~7 miles, or dropped CCRP from high altitude, which provides good slant range on release. GBU-39 can be launched from significant stand-off range …. 20-ish miles, perhaps further.
Which ‘GPS weapons’ specifically are you wanting to release at stand-off range and which ‘manual bombing mode’ weapons do you think accomplish that?
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Ok. thanks for the replies. Perhaps, some clarification may be helpful. The way that I understand it is that you have two modes to release the entire GPS Weapons Group, and that is PRE or VIS. In PRE you will have a HUD symbology like the CCRP mode with Laser Weapons. You fly towards the release point and then, when the timer nears zero, you pickle the bomb. At this point you are close enough to the target to be a target. The entire GPS group only needs a set of coordinates to hit within three feet of the exact spot of the target. It just seems that if you have a valid set of coordinates, all you would actually do is fly to within the maximum range of the weapon and pickle it off and then break away while the weapon flew merrily towards its exact point of impact. There would be no solution cue anything resembling it. You do not need to fire a G{S weapon at a target. You just fly fast and generally toward the target and then get the heck out of there. That is why the weapon was procured - to vastly improve accuracy and also vastly improve stand off. Obviously, I am pretty new to BMS 4.33 and I do love it. Maybe it does have a pretty steep learning curve.
Thanks to all.
Raven
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It is preferred to call them inertially-aided munitions (IAM) instead of GPS. JDAM works perfectly fine without GPS (and doesn’t even get a fix for short drops) and WCMD doesn’t have it at all. It is like a London cab driver. Sure he has a map and it helps a little but he’s driving. The INS in JDAM or WCMD is driving. If it’s a long way and there’s time a JDAM will get a few GPS updates for a little better precision. WCMD is strictly gyroscopes and accelerometers though.
F-16 absolutely gives flexibility to drop the weapon in a variety of places. It is a special version of CCRP, CCRP-IAM which computes the region of the sky that the weapon is acceptable to be launched and still make it via guidance to the target. It is called the launch acceptability region and if your airplane is inside it weapon release is allowed. You can see the LAR as a staple on the HUD similar to the AIM-120 or AIM-9 DLZ in AA. There is even a smaller region LAR2 inside LAR1 which means it will also comply with your terminal heading settings (PRE only).
PRE and VIS are both CCRP-IAM mode but one is by non-visual sensor and VIS is designated by HUD TD box (like DTOS). There is no CCIP for IAMs due to the time required to accomplish the handoff and launch the weapon.